Local structural heterogeneity and electromechanical responses of ferroelectrics: learning from relaxor ferroelectrics

F Li, S Zhang, D Damjanovic, LQ Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐range ordering of dipoles is a key microscopic signature of ferroelectrics. These
ordered dipoles form ferroelectric domains, which can be reoriented by electric fields …

The relaxational properties of compositionally disordered ABO3 perovskites

GA Samara - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Random lattice disorder produced by chemical substitution in ABO 3 perovskites can lead to
the formation of dipolar impurities and defects that have a profound influence on the static …

Multifunctional BaTiO3-Based Relaxor Ferroelectrics toward Excellent Energy Storage Performance and Electrostrictive Strain Benefiting from Crossover Region

Y Huang, C Zhao, B Wu, J Wu - ACS applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lead-free relaxor ferroelectrics (RFEs) exhibit a broader variety of phenomena in
comparison with the “canonical” lead-containing compositions, rendering them attractive for …

Organic and inorganic relaxor ferroelectrics with giant electrocaloric effect

SG Lu, B Rožič, QM Zhang, Z Kutnjak, X Li… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The electrocaloric effect (ECE) in inorganic thin film and organic relaxor ferroelectrics is
investigated by directly measuring the ECE around room temperature. The results reveal …

Relaxor-ferroelectric transitions: Sodium bismuth titanate derivatives

AR Paterson, H Nagata, X Tan, JE Daniels… - MRS …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) and its solid solutions with other ABO3 perovskites are of
great interest for lead-free ferroelectric and piezoelectric applications. In this article, we …

Comparison of directly and indirectly measured electrocaloric effect in relaxor ferroelectric polymers

SG Lu, B Rožič, QM Zhang, Z Kutnjak, R Pirc… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We report the directly measured electrocaloric effect (ECE)(the adiabatic temperature
change Δ T⁠) of relaxor ferroelectric poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene …

Glassy freezing in relaxor ferroelectric lead magnesium niobate

A Levstik, Z Kutnjak, C Filipič, R Pirc - Physical Review B, 1998 - APS
The freezing process in lead magnesium niobate (PMN) has been investigated by
measurements of the frequency-dependent complex dielectric constant and its third …

Long-time relaxation of the dielectric response in lead magnoniobate

EV Colla, EY Koroleva, NM Okuneva, SB Vakhrushev - Physical review letters, 1995 - APS
We measured the time dependencies of the dielectric permittivity of a single crystal lead
magnoniobate in the zero-field–cooled regime. The logarithmic decay of the dielectric …

Strain glass in Fe-doped Ti–Ni

D Wang, Z Zhang, J Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Wang, X Ding… - Acta materialia, 2010 - Elsevier
We report the existence of strain glass in Ti50Ni50− xFex, beyond a critical Fe doping level
x> xc (5< xc< 6). The strain glass state is confirmed by the appearance of a frequency …

Dielectric properties of tetragonal lanthanum modified lead zirconate titanate ceramics

X Dai, A DiGiovanni, D Viehland - Journal of applied physics, 1993 - pubs.aip.org
Tetragonal La‐modified lead zirconate titanate ceramics with a Zr/Ti ratio of 40/60 (x/40/60)
with La contents (x) between 0 and 21 at.% were prepared by the mixed oxide method and …